Phreak, I'm only playing the Devil's advocate here, but simply because some things existed in the time period the Bible was written doesn't make it not a fairy tale. It's your faith that makes it true to you, as is it other's faith that makes it fiction in their eyes.

And actually I think it may be easier for the others to prove much of the Bible is fiction due to the lack of physical evidence that it is not. Ergo, it's all about one's faith, however derived.